Cultural Alliance Hosts Free Party to Expose Teens to Contemporary Art

This year, the Cultural Alliance is launching Future: Forward, a new initiative to use strategic foresight in thinking about how our members and sector can prepare for the future in the next ten years and beyond. Here are some signals of change we've collected to think about how future immigration might impact arts & culture.

The Poetic Address is made up of sonnets contributed by a remarkable group of invited poets, and story poems created by Philly-based poets in response to the stories uploaded as part of #PSOTU2016.

On February 17, join Spiral Q and Arch Street United Methodist Church for a forum around Art Activism: Animating Antiracism Advocacy.

The 2016 Bloomberg Arts Internship Program-Philadelphia, a partnership between the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and WorkReady Philadelphia, will provide 50 incoming seniors at Philadelphia public high schools with six-week summer internships at some of Philadelphia's leading nonprofit cultural institutions. Learn how your organization can become a participating worksite and host an intern!

STAMP is about midway through its third year, and we are pleased to announce that more than 13,000 teens from neighborhoods across Philadelphia have signed up for STAMP, with signups continuing to roll in! If your organization works with teens, we have some exciting new programming opportunities to share as Year 3 continues.

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to review grant applicants? In partnership with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is seeking volunteer panelists to evaluate proposals and help determine how nearly $400,000 is annually distributed to regional artists and organizations.

The year-long Philly Block Project will provide a visual narrative of South Kensington’s past and present through photographs.

With a $25,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) Germantown will undergo an arts-based civic engagement process led by Germantown United CDC and theater-based nonprofit Just Act.

This year, the Cultural Alliance is launching Future: Forward, a new initiative to use strategic foresight in thinking about how our members and sector can prepare for the future in the next ten years and beyond. Here are some signals of change we've collected to think about how progress in diversity, inclusion and equity will impact the future of arts and culture.